On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:53:32PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:26:48PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > The only changes were the standard MAX*LEN problems. In the case > > of MAXHOSTNAMELEN, I just defined it to 256 following SUSv2. Even > > though the standard does not define this macro, it does say that > > hostnames can't be longer then 256 characters. > > I always wondered about that. In fact, I asked why we don't define it here > a year or so ago. POSIX says in gethostname() > > Host names are limited to 255 bytes. > > (at least in my recent draft). > > So doesn't it make sense for us to define this macro? All users of > MAXHOSTNAMELEN rely on the standard POSIX interface, so even if the Hurd > itself is not limited by this, those programs might rightly rely on this > limit and still claim POSIX compatibility. In fact, it seems if we want to > be POSIX compatible, we must not return hostnames longer than that limit, or?
That's a good idea. Does it go into the Hurd headers or glibc headers? In either case it's up to Roland if he wants to include it or not. But I think it should be defined approprietly (not that linux only defines it to be 64). Igor
